Raw ephedra is ephedra that has not been concocted. Raw ephedra has the effects of sweating and relieving the surface of the body (relieving the body’s surface of evil qi by sweating), declaring the lungs and calming asthma, and inducing diuresis and eliminating oedema (relieving urine and eliminating oedema). It has the effect of treating wind-cold and cold, cough and asthma, and wind-water (sudden edema of the head, face and limbs) and edema.
Raw ephedra is the ephedra of ephedra that has not been concocted, and is the herbaceous stem of Ephedra herbacea, Ephedra chinensis, or Ephedra xylophilus, family Ephedraceae. It has the efficacy of sweating and relieving the epidermis, promoting the lungs to calm the asthma, and inducing water retention and swelling. The main treatment for wind-cold cold, cough and asthma, wind and water edema, wind-cold cold cold (cold) fever, head and body pain, nasal congestion, no sweat and other wind-cold surface solid evidence.
Precautions for ephedra strong dispersing power, easy to consume qi and hurt yin, so the dosage should not be too large; the treatment of wind-cold episodes, to raw for the best. Adverse effects are not clear. Because ephedrine has the effect of excitation of the center, so athletes should be cautious. Caution should be exercised in patients with deficiency of surface (due to frequent natural sweating in weak muscle surface), deficiency of yin and night sweating (abnormal sweating after going to sleep, but sweating stops after waking up), and deficiency of lung and kidney with wheezing.
If medication is needed, it is recommended to use it under the guidance of a Chinese medicine practitioner to identify the symptoms, unauthorized use of medication may cause adverse consequences.